Larry Pileggi, Ph.D.

Larry Pileggi is the Tanoto Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously held positions at Westinghouse Research and Development and the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. His research interests include various aspects of digital and analog design and design methodologies. He has consulted for various semiconductor and EDA companies, and was a co-founder of Fabbrix (acquired by PDF Solutions in 2007) and Extreme DA (acquired by Synopsys in 2011).

He has received various awards, including Westinghouse corporation’s highest engineering achievement award, a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Awards in 1991 and 1999, the inaugural Richard A. Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award, the SRC Aristotle award in 2008, the 2010 EEE Circuits and Systems Society Mac Van Vlakenburg Award, and the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation in 2011. He is a co-author of “Electronic Circuit and System Simulation Methods,” McGraw-Hill, 1995 and “IC Interconnect Analysis,” Springer, 2002. He has published over 250 refeereed conference and journal papers and holds 30 U.S. patents. He is a fellow of IEEE.